Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

György C. Kálmán

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Present positions

Senior researcher, Department of Literary Theory, Institute for literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

Education and Theses

Habilitation (theses and lectures in order to be qualified as a full professor): “Communities, Canons, Interpretations” (in Hung.) 2000, Graduate School of Literary Studies, Pécs University, Pécs.

PhD (= Candidate’s Degree, CSc) Literature as speech act: A study in the history of literary theory (in Hung.) 1990. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.

MA Critical receptions of a Hungarian volume of poetry (in Hung.), 1977.Eötvös L. University,Budapest. Supervisor: Prof. P. Pándi.

BA Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Arts, Budapest; majors: English Language and literature, Hungarian Language and Literature, and Aesthetics; 1972-1977

Current areas of research

Interrelations of pragmatics and literary theory

Interpretation theory: interpretive communities, professional/lay interpretation, sociology of interpretation

Contemporary and 20^th century Hungarian literature

Knowledge of languages

Hungarian native

English excellent, written & spoken

French good, written

Positions held

2000-2007 Professor, Dept. of Modern Literature and Literary Theory, Pécs University, Pécs, Hungary

2000-2004 Head of Dept. of Modern Literatures and Literary Theory, Pécs University

1991-- Senior researcher at the Department of Literary Theory, Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (henceforth ILS, HAcSc)

1990- Senior lecturer (as of 2000, Professor) at the Dept. of Literary Theory at the Pécs University, Pécs

1986-1990 Researcher at the Department of Literary Theory, ILS, HAcSc

1983-1986 Researcher at the Department of Modern Hungarian Literature, ILS, HAcSc

1979-1983 Librarian, ILS, HAcSc

1978 - 1979 Teacher of literature at the I. Stephan Secondary School of Economy and Accounting, Budapest

1977 - 1978 Odd jobs, translating, writing lexicon entries and book reviews, teaching Hungarian language at the International Preparatory School, Budapest

Awards

2004 Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of the Humanities, Pécs University

2003 Prize for the Year’s Publications, Pécs University

2003 Writers’ Society Award for Critics

2000 Alföld Award (for the best publication of the year in the literary magazin “Alföld”)

1999 Soros Award for Critics

1997 Széchenyi Professor Grant (a four year state grant for outstanding university professors)

1991 Akadémiai Publishing House Book Award (for the book “Literature as Speech Act”)

1989 Z. Móricz Award of the Ministry of Culture

1989 Z. Kanyó Memorial Award

Major publications

Books

Az irodalom mint beszédaktus (Literature as Speech Act) Budapest: Akadémiai, 1990.

Te rongyos (elm)élet! (You Freakin’ Theory/Life!) Budapest: Balassi, 1998. pp. 293.

(ed.) Az értelmező közösségek elmélete (The Theory of Interpretive Communities). Budapest: Balassi, 2001.

Mű- és valódi élvezetek ([P]leasures of the [he]art). Pécs: Jelenkor, 2002. pp. 221.

Articles and Book Chapters

Kafka’s Prometheus. Neohelicon 34(2007), 1: 51-58.

„Translating Language, Text, Short Story, Genre, Style, Literary Trend… and Culture.” In: Rein Undusk, ed. At the End of the World. Text, Motif, Culture. Tallinn: The Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, 2005. [Collegium Litterarum 18.] 82-93.

The Novels of György Konrád – Fiction and Experiment. Literatura (English Special Issue) 30(2004), 58-73.

The Professionals’ Field of Operation: Canons. In: Raja Kuncheva at al., eds. Da otgledas smszela. Sbornik v chezt na Radosvet Kolarov. Sofiya, Izdatelski centar “Boyan Penev”, 2004. 74-82.

Marginal Characters of (Literary Hi)story: The Popular, the Avant-Garde, the Subcultural in Totalizing Literary Historical Narratives. Neohelicon XXX (2003) 2, 41-48.

After Dictatorships: Transition, Modernity, Post-Modernity and Power. In Djelal Kadir, Dorothea Löbbermann, eds. Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2002, 63-73.

Literaturovedennie, 90-e gody. Inostrannaja Literatura 2001, No. 3., 223-229.

On happiness, or the performative without conditions. Neohelicon 28(2001), 2, 51-54.

Ideologies of (and in) interpretation. About 400 pages, Prague: Virtus, homepage of Open Society Institute/Research Support Scheme, 2001: http://e-lib.rss.cz/cgi-bin/diglib/element_show.cgi?element_id=98.

Kanonizirani interpretacii. Literaturna mis’l (Sofia) 45(2001), 1-2, 122-132.

Canonised Interpretations. In: Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, ed. National Heritage - National Canon. Budapest: Collegium Budapest Workshop Series, 2001, No. 11, 95-106.

“Literariness of Theory,” Neohelicon 27(2000):1, 15-20.

Ways of Representing Discontinuous Memories: Re-arranging the Canonical Order by Breaking with Classical Literary Historiography. In Vervliet, Raymond and Annemarie Estor, eds. Methods for the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory. Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association “Literature as Cultural Memory”, Leiden 16-22 August 1997. Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000, ??-?? pp. [Series: Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature 30 Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association “Literature as Cultural Memory”]

„What Is Wrong with Interpretive Communities?” In: Ernõ Kulcsár-Szabó, Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, hrsg.: Epoche, Text, Modalitaet. Diskurs der Moderne in der ungarischen Literaturwissenschaft. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999. 195-212.

A New Bibliography of Critical Theory. Donald G. Marshall: Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography. Poetics Today 18(1997): 1: 121-125.

Carlos Reis: Towards a Semiotics of Ideology. (1993). Poetics Today 18(1997): 1: 134-137.

Ellen Spolsky, ed. Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory. (1993). Poetics Today 18(1997): 1: 139-140.

What Is Wrong with Interpretive Communities? Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 3(1997), 1: 53-73.

Signs/signals of literariness. Sign Theory vs Reception Theory. In: Michel Balat, Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, éd. Signs of Humanity. L'homme et ses signes. Vol. 1. The Hague - Paris: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, 513-519.

Boundaries of interpretive communities. In: D. Fokkema, ed. Proceedings of the 12th Congress of the ICLA, Münich, 1988. Vol. 5. München: Iudicium Verlag, 1990, 105-111.

Comparing criticism to what. Neohelicon 17(1990): 1: 79-100.

Hungary. In: New Literary History International Bibliography of literary theory and interpretation 1984-1985. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. P., 1988.

(With Gábor Prószéky, László Kálmán, Ádám Nádasdy) Hocus, focus, and verb types in Hungarian infinitive constructions. In: Werner Abraham, S. de Mey, eds., Topic, focus, and configurationality. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1986, 129-142.

The rise of the absurd (?) in Hungarian drama. Neohelicon 13(1986), No. 1.: 163-176.

Some borderline cases of translation. New Comparison 1(1986), No.1.: 117-122. (In Turkish: Çeviride Bazı Sınır Durumlar. Metis (İstambul), 14(1991 Kiş), pp. ??) – See also in José Lambert, André Lefevere, eds. La traduction dans le développement des littératures. Bern etc.: Peter Lang, 1993, 69-72.

(With Gábor Prószéky, László Kálmán, Ádám Nádasdy) Topic, focus, and auxiliaries in Hungarian. Groningen Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 24(1984), 162-177.

Context. The main factor of the receiver's creativity. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Aesthetics. Dubrovnik, 1980. Vol. 2. Beograd, 1980. Vol. 3. (Abstracts) Beograd, 1980.

Teaching

1992-2007 Senior lecturer, then Professor at the Department of Literary Theory, Pécs University, Pécs, Hungary (Head of Dept., as of 2000)

1986 - 1987 Teacher of Hungarian language, courses for American students at the Budapest University of Economy

1987-1988 Teacher of literature, courses in the history of Hungarian literature for American students at the Eötvös Collegium, L. Eötvös Univ., Budapest

Conference Presentations

2005 Pécs, Hungary, Jacques Derrida Memorial Round Table with Jean-Luc Nancy

2004 Limoges, France, Université Limoges and Pécs Univ. joint conference on linguistics and literature

2002 Dubrovnik, Croatia, Conference of the AILC Committee of Literary Theory

2002 Sofia, Bulgaria, joint conference of the Bulgarian and Hungarian Academies

2002 Tallinn, Estonia, joint conference of the Estonian and Hungarian Academies

2002 Pécs, Hungary, invited keynote speaker of the Congress of IGEL (International Society of Empirical Literary Studies)

2001 Berlin, Germany, Conference of the AILC Committee of Literary Theory

2000 Pécs, Hungary, Round Table with Jacques Derrida on the future of universities

2000 Cairo, Egypt, Conference on Literary Criticism

1998 Leiden, The Netherlands, congress of the AILC

1989 Varna, Hungarian/Bulgarian conference on literary theory

1989 Barcelona, Perpignan, 4th International Congress of Semiotics

1988 Munich, 12th Congress of the AILC

1986 Vienna, 2nd International Congress of Hungarian Studies

1985 Paris, 11th Congress of the AILC

1984 Novi Sad, conference on 20th century Hungarian literature

1980 Dubrovnik, 9th Int'l Congress of Aesthetics

Other scholarly visits

1993 - 1994 Tel Aviv, Porter Institute of the Tel Aviv University, 4 months grant of the Soros Foundation (New York) and an additional 4 months grant of the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education

1993 Stockholm and Lund, 2 weeks grant at the University of Stockholm and Lund

1992 London, 2 weeks grant at the London University

1990 Amsterdam, 2 weeks grant at the Univ. of Amsterdam

1989 Amsterdam, 2 weeks grant at the Univ. of Amsterdam

1987 Toronto and Montreal, 30 days (grant)

Other Scholarly Activities

2003-present Editor, BUKSZ (Budapest Book Review)

1997- present member, Literary Studies Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1997- 2002 Honorary Secretary, Literary Studies Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1995-96 Editor of the literary journal 2000

1993- present Member of the editorial Board, Café Babel

1992-95 Regular book reviewer and member of the editorial board, Beszélô

1991-94 Honorary Secretary, Poetics Committee, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

1990- present Editor, Literatura, journal of the Institute for Literary Studies

Professional societies

1985- International Association of Hungarian Studies

1984- AILC/ICLA: Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée

1987- 1993 International Association for Semiotic Studies

1997-2004 Member of the Committee of Literary Theory of the AILC